A. Dobson on Balancing Risk and Psychological Safety and K. Kirk on Escaping Organisational Hell

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

• Episode: A. Dobson on Balancing Risk and Psychological Safety and K. Kirk on Escaping Organisational Hell
• Website: Engineering Culture by InfoQ
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• Duration: 00:37:34
• Published: 2019-08-05 23:24

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this episode recorded at QCon London 2019 Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Andrea Dobson on balancing risk and psychological safety and Katherine Kirk on escaping organisational hell. Why listen to this podcast: • Where people work together we see behaviours that need coaching and that’s where organisational psychologists provide value • Psychological safety is necessary in order to be able to mitigate risks • Teams need to build habits that promote safety – ask more questions rather than blaming, and look for learning opportunities • There is a lot to learn from Eastern philosophy about empowering people to solve their own problems rather than solving it for them • One of the main reasons that organisation “transformations” don’t stick is due to the ingrained habits that haven’t been changed • Frequently the issue is that the effort involved in changing habits wasn’t taken into account when the transition plan was established • There are some common patterns which inhibit organisational change, these include: aversion, desire, restlessness (or busyness), dullness (exhaustion) and oscillating doubt More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2Kg2NTX You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2Kg2NTX